Well today is Election Day here in the U.S., our annual opportunity to practice democracy (insert joke here about continuing to practice until we get it right). Here's hoping all those who are registered get out and vote, and that the process proceeds smoothly.

Actually, it's the conservatives which are playing the race card today.

But you didn't respond to my map, which showed that the red states are red in more ways than one - most of the states that went red are the states that have been running a deficit for decades. How can they be the fiscally responsible ones if they're the states that are in deepest debt?